I posted a new web page on this site for the first time in a while. Marcescance is the withering and persistant retention of dead organs. It refers to leaves which stay on certain trees all winter until the new leaves emerge. The money plant featured in many of these pieces has leaves that are marcescent. The term could be used for all those things people are clinging to despite the knowledge they are harming the planet, such as flying. This morning I listened to a podcast from Art Basel about climate change. At first it was annoying as the various panelists gave lip service to what artists and gallery owners should do to support indigenous communities, suggesting they donate a portion of their profits as an action to fight the harm being inflicted on indigenous communities by climate change. It was not until the end of the podcast that flying and the huge amount of carbon spent by the wealthy traveling to attend Art Basel from all over the world was finally brought up. Indigenous people need their land and their planet to not be destroyed by our addiction to carbon more than they need money. And I almost lost it when one panelist explained that she did not take a train to Art Basel because then she would have had to spend an extra night in a hotel. But the insanity of that is if she was really paying the true cost of flying to our planet the train and extra hotel night would be considerably less expensive.
In addition to climate right now there is also military policing and the death of Tyre Phillips, Gun violence, a corrupt food supply, and unions that are finally standing up and saying it is unacceptable to pay those doing the actual work so much less than those who rule over them. ….oh and covid….YUP…Covid is still here!!!